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The move comes after The Examination and Politico reported that those meetings could violate a global public health treaty.

China Tobacco’s products have likely caused at least 57 million deaths since 1990. No other company comes close, our analysis shows.

The Examination and POLITICO found that EU Commission officials had six meetings with the company after it requested help securing favorable tobacco regulations and taxes in non-EU countries.

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

The EU’s actions were a “great help,” Philip Morris International said in an email.

A Greek physician who has extensively studied nicotine was paid by Juul to lobby against Israeli vaping regulations. He didn’t disclose the payment in his research.

Funded by the maple industry, a researcher has exaggerated his findings to suggest that syrup could help prevent serious diseases.

Fueled by misleading marketing claims, the German drugmaker’s painkiller tapentadol is on the rise.

Banks poured $286 billion into corporations linked to deforestation and polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining through a lax type of green finance called sustainability-linked loans.